Politics

The Answer My Friend

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This morning’s New York Times included a guest essay by retired marine general and former commander of the U.S. Central Command Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. In “Iran Got Trump All Wrong,” McKenzie lauds Donald Trump’s use of U.S. military power as an effective tool for tempering the influence and geopolitical agenda of the Iranian Islamic … Read more

Other People’s Lives

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I want you to look at him in all of his glory: “Larry the Liquidator.” The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people’s money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. … Read more

F*** the Epstein Files

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Let’s go to the video tape! ~Warner Wolf/Sportscaster Two days ago, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the state’s attorney general was reopening an investigation into potential sex trafficking and other illegal activity at Zorro Ranch, the 7,560 acre property Jeffrey Epstein purchased in 1993 from then New Mexico governor Bruce King. This latest … Read more

The 34 Percent Solution

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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. ~Bruce Springsteen The title of today’s post was inspired by Nicholas Meyer’s novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, presented in the form of a dialogue between the storied detective and Sigmund Freud who was enlisted by Dr. Watson and Holmes’ brother Wycroft in hopes of … Read more